Uncle Ben
Well-Known Member
This is not near as stupid as the "study" on cannabis toxins whereby they spiked the cannabis flowers with pesticides, ran them thru various pipes and when the residual materials came out positive jumped up and down saying "see, there it is right there, there's pesticides in cannabis!" I still can't get over the stupidity of this supposedly scientific study. Here's some excerpts of the posts at the Riddle site. You must click on this study, you won't believe it. Enjoy.......
To the sifted plant material, a concentrated solution
of pesticide mixture in methanol, prepared to contain
0.730mg/mL bifenthrin, 7.41mg/mL diazinon, 4.37mg/mL
paclobutrazol, and 6.18mg/mL permethrin, was then added
incrementally to the plant material. These concentrations
were selected to allow for full quantification of residues
captured in the gas wash bottle solutions. A total of 8.30mL
of the pesticide mixture solution was added to 7.4860 g of
the material incrementally. Each increment was carried out
by adding 1mL of the solution drop-wise.......
Look at Table 2: Spiked plantmaterial extractions.
There is no data provided relevant to real field application methods, amounts, frequency, time from application of the flowers to the amount of time to harvest. Those are all important variables that were ignored. Why? Because they spinned it to get to a conclusion that more than likely is based on principles or ideology. There was plenty of what ifs and scare tactics used in that presentation. Excuse the pun, but I smell a (lab) rat.
Uncle Ben
BLANK, the study is flawed. it's a big fuckin' lie. (Hell, I feel like I've been Obama-ed.) THEY ADDED THE CHEMICALS IN LARGE DOSES DIRECTLY TO THE PROCESSED FLOWERS and then tested. The material was spiked and then tested. What a load of crap! There is no DATA available as to how much, when, and how chemicals were applied under normal cultural conditions nor is there mention that all pesticides degrade into chemicals that are not considered harmful under NORMAL circumstances. For example, the organophosphates break down over time into phosphates from which they were made. Malathion in as little as 5 days.
To the sifted plant material, a concentrated solution
of pesticide mixture in methanol, prepared to contain
0.730mg/mL bifenthrin, 7.41mg/mL diazinon, 4.37mg/mL
paclobutrazol, and 6.18mg/mL permethrin, was then added
incrementally to the plant material. These concentrations
were selected to allow for full quantification of residues
captured in the gas wash bottle solutions. A total of 8.30mL
of the pesticide mixture solution was added to 7.4860 g of
the material incrementally. Each increment was carried out
by adding 1mL of the solution drop-wise.......
Look at Table 2: Spiked plantmaterial extractions.
There is no data provided relevant to real field application methods, amounts, frequency, time from application of the flowers to the amount of time to harvest. Those are all important variables that were ignored. Why? Because they spinned it to get to a conclusion that more than likely is based on principles or ideology. There was plenty of what ifs and scare tactics used in that presentation. Excuse the pun, but I smell a (lab) rat.
Uncle Ben
Do you know why it turns gold/brown? I kind of understand why the "stake" through the stem speeds up flowering, mostly due to less water/nutrient uptake/ stress causing it to finish early/ try to make more seeds for survival or something along those lines.. (outdoors it's hard to speed things up when a plant is in the ground using nutrients) but indoor grows there are nutrients available that do the same thing as stabbing the plant does pretty much. It's funny that was brought up because I haven't seen anyone do that in a very long time, I totally forgot about it. So I was reading up today on the procedure and it seems like a lot of foriegn countries practice the voodoo doll technique, anyone know why? I wouldn't think they would be doing it to speed up harvest since africa is warm and there's no need to dodge snow or frost, does it really add resin? Because I never noticed anything like that other than the plant slowly dieing and finishing early, no bigger buds, no more resin, I wasn't even aware of that being the reason cleaving is done 
